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2021-04-19 07:32:18
A ray of hope: hcmf// and Irtijal's Istimrar commissions
[…] Irtijal will handle promotion and distribution, and the commissions are expected to appear from late Summer this year (2021) initially on on-line platforms and with live performances as conditions allow. The commissioned composers are: Abed Kobeissy Anthony Sahyoun Aya Metwalli Cynthia Zaven Elyse Tabet Fadi Tabbal Ghassan Sahhab Jad Atoui Jana Saleh Jawad Nawfal Julia Sabra Nour Sokhon Since the devastating explosion in Beirut on August 2020, the Irtijal team have held firmly to their belief in the necessity of keeping the city’s musical sector alive no matter what. They put together a short edition of the annual festival in November 2020, followed by a German iteration of Irtijal Festival in Berlin. Earlier in October, they were involved in a large-scale fundraising event […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-12-27 15:32:19
Tapestry Of Sabra And Shatila Massacres Could Hang Next To Picasso's 'Guernica'
"Ramzi Dalloul, a Palestinian businessman and collector of Arab art, has commissioned the Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid to transform Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi's drawing of the atrocity into a 21-sq.-m wall hanging. ... On a visit to the 300-year-old factory when work on the tapestry started, the Spanish culture minister asked Dalloul if the finished piece could be displayed alongside Picasso's Guernica" at the Reina Sofia Museum.
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-02-15 07:00:34
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 02.14.16
Editors’ Choice: Some ArtsJournal Stories You Shouldn’t Miss From The Past Week 1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want?Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want. One theatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50% increase in audience . But perhaps it’s… … read more AJBlog: Diacritical Published 2016-02-14 Coming into land Shouldn’t ballet have previews? Wouldn’t it help dancers and choreographers alike? As with most bad things, the money says no. Ballets have short runs, so you slap ’em on stage and get reviews and… … read more AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-02-14 From Palestine via Belgium Badke, a Belgian-Palestinian dance production, comes to New York Live Arts. Badke. Maalii Maali (L) and Samer Samahnah; visible at back: Mohammed Samahnah (L) and Ameer Sabra. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu There is no […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2015-09-04 09:20:26
Israel’s Favorite Palestinian – He’s Given Up And Emigrated
“In the past decade, he has become the kind of writer whose column, in the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, ‘people hang on their fridge,’ as a colleague put it. In 2007, a sitcom he wrote, titled Arab Labor (a Sabra idiom for second-rate work), had its début, introducing an Arab family to Israeli audiences for the first time. It made him a celebrity not just on the comfortable left,” but even among taxi drivers and soccer hooligans.
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